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Indian government to revisit strategy to fight TB, says health minister (post)
Dharamshala, April 8: The government is revisiting its strategy to combat tuberculosis after setting an ambitious target to eradicate the dreaded disease from India by 2025. It will come up with a national plan with an aim to have a “dynamic strategy” to tackle the problem, according to Union health minister J.P. Nadda.
Treating TB in India: plan to reward private doctors (post)
With tuberculosis (TB) emerging as India’s biggest health threat, the Union health ministry plans to pay every private doctor who successfully treats a TB patient.
Ukraine: The surprising consequences of TB (post)
A rising tide of resistant TB in Ukraine meets a new drug and vigilant workers who won’t give up on their patients.
Pakistan: Government to launch TB screening vans (post)
KARACHI: The Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in collaboration with the National and Provincial TB Control Programmes and Indus Health Network is planning to launch a ‘Mobile X-Ray Vans Service’ in Karachi and other parts of Pakistan to detect TB cases.
India's plan to eliminate TB by 2025: converting rhetoric into reality (post)
The Government of India announced its plan to eliminate TB by 2025 during the Union Budget address in February. The declaration is extraordinarily ambitious, considering that India accounts for 27% of the world's 10.4 million new TB cases, and 29% of the 1.8 million TB deaths globally. India also accounts for 16% of the estimated 480 000 new cases of multidrug-resistant TB. The End TB Strategy by WHO aims to end the global TB epidemic, with targets to reduce TB deaths by 95% and to cut new cases by 90% by 2035.
TB eradication by 2025 unrealistic, says ICMR's Dr Soumya Swaminathan (post)
Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Secretary of the Department of Health Research in India’s Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), speaks to DNA on ICMR’s ongoing study on cellphone tower radiation, dedication to eliminate leprosy and its future plans.
The Union initiatives in Myanmar, Zimbabwe and India (post)
Learn more about the projects of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) in Myanmar, Zimbabwe and India:
In a Delhi red light area, health officials are going door-to-door to detect cases of TB (post)
Early this year 25-year-old Abhi* went to a private clinic to get treatment for a lump near her neck that was hurting. The doctor told to go to the municipal clinic. Abhi works as a sex worker in the Delhi’s GB Road red light area.
PEPFAR approves 2017 budget to support South Africa’s fight against HIV/AIDS and TB (post)
On April 25, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, Ambassador Deborah Birx, approved PEPFAR’s $483 million Country Operational Plan 2017 (COP2017) budget for South Africa, an increase over 2016. The COP2017 budget will support South Africa’s HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) programs through September 2018. The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the U.S. government’s initiative to help save the lives of those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. Since 2004, PEPFAR has invested over $5.6 billion in South Africa’s response to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and TB. This investment has saved the lives of millions of South Africans.
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